playcanvas / playcanvas/engine
Support shadow casting from particles
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area: graphics
enhancement
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
Currently, PlayCanvas' particle system does not support shadow casting. Let's consider adding this feature. A cool demo showing how it can look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmnbvHwd3jc
Requested by 'dirkus' on the PlayCanvas forum:
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no source files, tests, or entry points; start by reviewing the linked demo and forum request to define the rendering scope. Done would mean particle effects can cast shadows, but the issue does not specify the implementation path or validation tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100